Caroline McCullagh

Caroline McCullagh

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Welcome to my Blog

I’ll usually post three times a week. Mondays will be general essay on whatever captures my fancy. I’ll write about writing and editing, about gardening and cooking, about women worth knowing, and other topics. I’m also a science nerd, so you’ll get some of that. I like to write haikus, so you may get a few of those too. Wednesdays will be for the arts: music, books, and whatever else comes to mind. Fridays will be history questions and answers from my books American Trivia and American Trivia Quiz Book. Finally, I’ll suggest links to other blogs and websites that I think might interest you. But be sure to come back here when you’re done though. There’ll be much more here in coming weeks.

BLOG AND WEBSITE RECOMMENDATIONS

My first recommendation is Richard Lederer’s www.verbivore.com . He has a wealth of information on many topics. He’s written more than 50 books on language, humor, and history. To give you just a taste, here’s what he writes as his opening paragraph of his website:

Welcome to the website woven for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores. Carnivores eat meat; herbivores eat plants and vegetables; verbivores devour words. If you are heels overhead (as well as head over heels) in love with words, tarry here a while to graze or, perhaps, feast on the English language. Ours is the only language in which you drive in a parkway and park in a driveway and your nose can run and your feet can smell…

If you have any questions about the English language, Richard is your man. You can email your questions to him, and he’ll be glad to give you an answer. You’ll find much of pleasure and of interest at his website. I recommend it to you.

Another of my favorites is Writer’s Almanac. If you sign up, you get a daily email that takes five minutes or less to read. It starts with a poem, sometimes contemporary, sometimes from the past, and continues with snippets of history—mostly about writers. Sign up for the email newsletter.

 

Introduction

September 17, 2020 / Caroline McCullagh / American Trivia

What are the ties that bind together a country as far-reaching and diverse as ours? We are not a people made from a single stock. Rather, we are a medley of colors, races, religions, and ethnicities. You might think our language unites us, but in fact, we have no official language; we speak all the […]

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Music: Bridging the Generation Gap.

September 16, 2020 / Caroline McCullagh / Music

I started this odyssey of finding music I liked on the internet with “Old Movie Stars Dance to Uptown Funk.” Stars from the 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s dance to current music. No matter what your age, this is fun. It might even get you to dance yourself. You’ll see famous dancers: Gene Kelly, Fred […]

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Eyes and Ears

September 15, 2020 / Caroline McCullagh / Music

A million years ago when I was a freshman in college, I was eating lunch with a classmate in the student union. The union was busy at lunchtime. Two guys, who knew the other girl, asked if they could share our table. We said yes. It turned out that one of the guys, Jim, was […]

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My Favorite Book

September 13, 2020 / Caroline McCullagh / Writing/Book Reviews

Interviewers often ask people what their favorite books are and why. No one asked, but I’ll tell you anyway. Without a doubt, my favorite book is Never in Anger: A Portrait of an Eskimo Family by Jean L. Briggs. I bought my copy in 1972, shortly after it was first published. Forty-eight years later, it’s […]

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Vegetable Dreams

September 12, 2020 / Caroline McCullagh / Opinions and Miscellaneous

It’s amazing how simple things can bring us joy.  And it’s wonderful to realize that no matter our age, there are still new things to savor in life.  Currently, I’m savoring fruits and vegetables. I recently told a friend that once a week I receive a box of organic fruit and vegetables from a (sort […]

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Dorsett Golden

Garden: Dorsett Golden.

September 11, 2020 / Caroline McCullagh / Opinions and Miscellaneous

New desk delivered Who knew the old one (gone) held So much useless stuff. I bought a new desk and filing cabinet. When I cleaned out file folders in the process of moving them to the new drawers, I found the receipt for the Dorsett Golden apple tree I bought in 2001 to be a […]

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My Immigrant Mom

September 10, 2020 / Caroline McCullagh / Opinions and Miscellaneous

All the recent talk about immigrants makes me think about my mother. She married my father and emigrated from England in 1930. She lived in the US, mostly in California, until her death in 1988. She went home to England to visit family on only two occasions. She chose never to become a citizen. When […]

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